PG&E Raising Prices

California’s largest utility, Pacific Gas and Electric Co (PG&E), is making strides towards limiting energy use, simplifying rate plans, and promoting clean energy. Unfortunately, if you’re a residential PG&E customer, these strides are leading to higher utility bills if you don’t make an effort to conserve. A Brief History of PG&E’s Electricity Rates In 2015,…

California May Go Dark This Summer, and Most Aren’t Ready

“I’m worried,’ Governor says, fearing week-long blackouts” A plan by California’s biggest utility to cut power on high-wind days during the onrushing wildfire season could plunge millions of residents into darkness. And most people aren’t ready. The plan by PG&E Corp. comes after the bankrupt utility said a transmission line that snapped in windy weather probably started last…